| Pickling since long has been done in homes for | | | | and pour the hot mixture over them leaving just half a |
| preserving fruits and vegetables. It is considered to be | | | | centimeter space at the top. Place the jars in boiling |
| the earliest form of preserving food. Earlier, man found | | | | water for about 10 minutes for further process. Store |
| out that salt, sugar and vinegar can preserve the fruits | | | | in a cool and dark place for about 2 months and then |
| and vegetables longer. Hence, he started making use | | | | the pickle is ready to consume. |
| of these ingredients during pickling and found how to | | | | Sweet pickles are another kind of pickles. They are |
| make pickles easily. | | | | made with almost the same ingredients as cucumber |
| The most important aspect of pickles is that it should | | | | pickle except that the quantity of sugar used is much |
| crunchy and have a wonderful taste. For this salt is the | | | | higher in sweet pickles. |
| most necessary ingredient. And this is not any ordinary | | | | How to make pickles with lime; The ingredients used |
| salt. But a special pickling salt is used for the pickling | | | | for lime pickles are lemons, sugar, salt, spices, oil, chili |
| purposes. Moreover, when selecting the fruit or the | | | | powder and ginger. How to make these kinds of |
| vegetable to be pickled, care has to be taken that it is | | | | pickles is a very easy job. The lemons are cut in |
| fresh, about medium sized and a bit thick skinned in | | | | quarters. All the other ingredients are mixed well in a |
| case of limes. | | | | cooking pot. The mixture is boiled. The limes are placed |
| In making pickles some of the equipment that is | | | | in sterilized jars and the mixture is added to it. In a |
| required is generally the same for all pickles. Only the | | | | period of 8 weeks the pickle is ready to consume. |
| spices and the fruit may vary. The equipment includes | | | | Similar to the lime pickle, green tomato pickles are also |
| jars with lids, pickling salt, fruit or vegetable to be | | | | made. Pickles can be made from many other fruits |
| pickled, spices such as mustard seeds, cumin seeds, | | | | and vegetables such as mango, raw mango, tomato |
| allspice, cloves, garlic, etc, oil, vinegar, water bath, etc. | | | | etc. |
| There are different types in which the pickle can be | | | | How to make pickles is not a problem as the recipe is |
| made. How to make cucumber pickle is explained | | | | very simple, only the ingredients change. Hence a |
| below; | | | | number of variations can be easily tried while making |
| Wash the cucumbers well and remove the top and | | | | pickles. The taste and flavor of the pickles is of |
| the bottom of each of them. Slice the cucumbers. | | | | foremost importance. And this depends upon the |
| Place them in a sink or tub. Add salt to it. After about 2 | | | | ingredients. Hence, careful selection of ingredients is |
| hours remove the cucumbers and discard the liquid. In | | | | required. |
| a large cooking pot, mix well mustard seeds, vinegar, | | | | Muna wa Wanjiru Has Been Researching and |
| sugar, water, and other ingredients mentioned as per | | | | Reporting on Pickles for Years. |
| the specific recipe. Put the cucumbers in sterilized jars | | | | |